Numbers 1:48

Bishop's Bible

For the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying:

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
For the LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,

King James Version
For the Lord had spoken unto Moses, saying,

Lexham English Bible
And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

New Century Version
the Lord had told Moses:

New English Translation
The Lord had said to Moses,

Amplified Bible
For the LORD had said to Moses,

New American Standard Bible
For the LORD had spoken to Moses, saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
For the Lord had spoken vnto Moses, and said,

Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh had spoken to Moses, saying,

Contemporary English Version
because the Lord had said to Moses:

Complete Jewish Bible
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Darby Translation
For Jehovah had spoken to Moses, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord had told Moses:

English Standard Version
For the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

George Lamsa Translation
Because the LORD had spoken to Moses, saying,

Good News Translation
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Christian Standard Bible®
For the Lord had told Moses:

Literal Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the LORDE spake vnto Moses, and saide:

American Standard Version
For Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

Bible in Basic English
For the Lord said to Moses,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:

King James Version (1611)
For the Lord had spoken vnto Moses, saying,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

English Revised Version
For the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
For the LORD had said to Moses:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord spak to Moises, and seide, `Nyle thou noumbre the lynage of Leuy,

Young's Literal Translation
seeing Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

Update Bible Version
For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
For the LORD had spoken to Moses, saying,

World English Bible
For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

New King James Version
for the LORD had spoken to Moses, saying:

New Living Translation
For the Lord had said to Moses,

New Life Bible
For the Lord had told Moses,

New Revised Standard
The Lord had said to Moses:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For Yahweh spake unto Moses saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Revised Standard Version
For the LORD said to Moses,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For the LORD had spoken to Moses, saying,

Contextual Overview

⁴⁷ But the Leuites after the tribes of their fathers, were not numbred among them. ⁴⁸ For the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying: ⁴⁹ Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Leui, neither take the summe of them among the chyldren of Israel. ⁵⁰ But thou shalt appoynt the Leuites ouer the tabernacle of wytnesse, & ouer all the vessels therof, and ouer all thinges that are in it: Yea, they shall beare the tabernacle, and all the vessels therof, and they shall minister in it, and shall dwell rounde about the tabernacle. ⁵¹ And whe the tabernacle goeth foorth, the Leuites shall take it downe: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Leuites shal set it vp: and if any straunger come nye, he shall dye. ⁵² And the chyldren of Israel shall pitch their tentes, euery man in his owne campe, and euery man vnder his owne standerd throughout their hoastes. ⁵³ But the Leuites shall pitche rounde about the tabernacle of wytnesse, that there be no wrath vpon the congregation of the chyldren of Israel: and the Leuites shall kepe the watche of the tabernacle of wytnesse. ⁵⁴ And the chyldren of Israel dyd accordyng to all that the Lorde commaunded Moyses, euen so dyd they.

Bible Verse Review
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Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the Lord had spoken unto Moses,.... Not to number the Levites, when he gave him the orders to number the rest of the tribes: this is observed, lest it should be thought that this was what Moses did of himself, out of affection to the tribe he was of, and to spare it, that it might not be obliged to go forth to war when others did; not that they were forbid to engage in war, or that it was unlawful for them so to do, for when necessity required, and they were of themselves willing to engage in it, they might, as appears in the case of the Maccabees, but they might not be forced into it; they were, as Josephus e says, exempted from it; and so all concerned in religious service, both among Heathens and Christians, have always been excused bearing arms:

saying; as follows.

e Antiqu. l. 3. c. 12. sect. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When a census of the tribe of Levi takes place. Numbers 3:15; Numbers 26:62, “all” the males are counted from a month old and upward, and not, as in the other tribes, those only who were of age for service in the field.

Numbers 1:48

had spoken - Render spake. The formal appointment is only now made, in reward for their zeal Exodus 32:26-29, though reference to their future office appears previously in Leviticus 25:32 ff, and they had already acted as assistants to the priests (compare Exodus 38:21).